7. Reading the perp’s complaints regarding the recent wave of bailouts makes me wonder whether I’m the only guy left in the country who’s even vaguely sympathetic to Bernanke, Paulson, & Geithner. Hmmm…maybe they should’ve taken the do-nothing approach back in Sept. ’08. Tough on the rest of the country, but at least it would’ve shut up the latter-day liquidationists for a generation or so.

8. I honestly don’t know if tea-party rhetoric was a contributing factor in this case. Looking at his suicide note, it seems his issues w/ the IRS/government date back many years. My SWAG is that he already had all the necessary impetus to do what he did; anything the tea partiers might’ve said would’ve been mere icing on the cake. That said, as I previously noted WRT the prolife movement: anyone using sufficiently extreme rhetoric should consider incidents like this a cost of doing business.